Blaze are partnering with SNK for new Evercade products

Evercade manufacturers Blaze Entertainment are partnering with SNK for new officially licensed NeoGeo products due throughout 2025 and 2026. Nothing has been officially announced just yet (a showcase is planned for late Q1 2025) but it seems sensible to suggest we’ll see new NeoGeo themed Evercade Alpha bartops and Pocket Arcade handhelds loaded with SNK classics. …

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Archer Maclean’s DropZone 40th Anniversary launches next month

System 3 has announced plans to release Archer Maclean’s DropZone 40th Anniversary on digital stores next month. Curiously, it’s skipping Xbox One and PS4 and gunning for PC, PS5, Xbox Series and Switch only. The refreshed HD visuals must pack a clout. The late Archer Maclean first released Dropzone in 1984 where it quickly became …

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Retro-style rescue platformer Moons of Darsalon launches in February

If you’re a fan of Lemmings and other ‘rescue’ style puzzle platformers, pencil 6th February in your 2025 planner – Moons of Darsalon is due out that day, set to launch on Switch, PlayStation, and Xbox formats. After becoming lost and stranded during interplanetary mining missions, the ‘Darsanauts’ now need to be found and rescued. …

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Innovative platformer Ruffy and the Riverside rolls out Q1 2025

A new gameplay trailer for Ruffy and the Riverside has been released, showing off some of the imaginative touches we can expect. It’s a 3D platformer featuring a 2D bear protagonist, in which it’s possible to swap textures to assist in traversal and puzzle solving. A waterfall, for instance, can be swapped with vines in …

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Claymation shooter Platypus is set to return, resculpted and refreshed

Here’s a remaster different from most. Back in 2002, the colourful Claymation side-scrolling shoot’em up Platypus launched on PC before making its way to PSP in 2006. It’s about to gain a remastered re-release which isn’t merely a HD iteration – original creator Anthony Flack has been working with the Sheffield-based Claymatic Games to rebuild the …

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Five ‘Net Yaroze’ PlayStation games arrive on Antstream Arcade

Back in August it was revealed that Net Yaroze games are coming to Antstream Arcade. Today, the first five games are ready to launch on the retro game streaming service. Firstly though, and for the uninformed, Net Yaroze was Sony’s home development system based on the PS1, allowing budding programmers to create their own games. …

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Atari 50’s ‘The First Console War’ DLC launches 8th Nov

In September, the retro collection Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration received its first paid DLC, The Wider World of Atari. Next week (8th Nov) the second piece of paid DLC launches, featuring another 19 games. The First Console War, as it’s known, details the battle between the Atari 2600 and Mattel’s Intellivision through a new …

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Horror game Self-Delusion is out today, and it’s a bit of a weird one

Perfectly timed for Halloween, the Sometimes You published horror romp Self-Delusion has launched on the digital services for just over a tenner. We’ve spent some time with it, and it’s certainly an oddity. This isn’t so much a horror adventure or a narrative driven affair, but rather a peculiar survival game based on Slavic folklore. …

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Seasons bleepings – TAITO Milestones 3 launches 10th December

It looks like we’re in for some retro action this December, with TAITO Milestones 3 set to launch on 10th Dec. This is, as it happens, the same day the scrolling beat’em up Mighty Morphin Power Rangers: Rita’s Rewind is out. A potentially expensive day for retro diehards! TAITO Milestones 3 is due both digitally …

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A new version of Speedball launched today in early access

Rebellion has released a surprise revival of the Bitmap Brothers’ futuristic sports game Speedball – something of an icon when it comes to UK gaming history, closely associated with the Amiga in particular. Speedball is available now in early access on PC for £14.99/$17.99. Taking place in 2138, it sees two teams of cybernetically augmented players …

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Two more modern Mega Drive indies are coming to Evercade in December

December sees another dual game cart for the Evercade. As many owners will testify, Blaze’s dual carts tend to be pretty good, with the standard generally higher and the games themselves more complex. Metal Dragon and Life on Mars are two modern indie Mega Drive games from Spanish studio Kai Magazine Software, known for pushing …

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Toaplan Arcade 4 announced for Evercade, including Snow Bros. 2

We never expected Blaze’s line of Toaplan cartridges to reach number 4 quite so quickly, especially when Toaplan Arcade 3 hasn’t released yet. We aren’t complaining though – Toaplan’s back catalogue hasn’t exactly been overexposed over the years. Due out in December, Toaplan Arcade 4 will include six titles. Oddly, they aren’t exclusively arcade titles. …

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